Professor of African History, Gent University
History Department
Gent University
Senior Research Associate, Peterhouse, University of Cambridge
The politics of poverty in TanzaniaSwahili Muslim preachers and their audiences
University Lecturer, African History, University of CambridgeFellow and Teaching Officer in History, PeterhouseAssistant Professor, Simon Fraser University, VancouverBritish Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, SOAS, University of London
The politics of poverty in Tanzania. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2019.Becoming Muslim in mainland Tanzania. Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2008
In African Affairs, Journal of African History, Journal of Global History, Africa, African Studies Review, Canadian Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Religion in Africa, International Journal of African Historical Studies et al.
Religion, Media and Marginality in Africa (with Joel Cabrita and Marie Rodet), 2018.Journal of African History, Special Issue on Africa in the Indian Ocean (with Joel Cabrita), 2014.AIDS and religious practice in Africa (with Wenzel Geissler), 2009.Der Maji Maji Krieg gegen die deutsche Kolonialherrschaft in Tanzania (with Jigal Beez), 2005
aftermath of slavery in East Africahistory of rural Islam in East Africapopular politics in East Africa